Kayle been at the top of the food chain for a while, specializing in insanely good kiting abilities and taking down squishy melee champions. She's definitely earned herself an easy Tier 1 spot on the solo queue tier list.

But...is she OP?

Win Rate

Weighing in at a hefty 52.5% in solo queue according to LoLking.net, she's definitely a heavy contender for being an extremely "strong" laner simply on statistics alone. Her most popular build by far is the one pictured in the video, with Nashor's Tooth and Lichbane synergizing VERY well with her kit.

The new preseason masteries have also given her a strong boost since the offense tree benefits hybrid champions almost TOO well (hence the 3.15 nerfs to the offense tree).

Skills in the Current Meta

The versatility of her ultimate will always be helpful against high burst champions as well as low mobility champions "all-in" melee champions. This means that she excels against common picks such as Zed, Olaf, and Garen.

Her splash damage from her E will also greatly benefit from fighting melee heavy, damage heavy compositions. This means that in a Riven dominated metagame, Kayle's potential to counteract her abilities is very high. Although in lane Riven vs Kayle is a very skill-based match-up, late game Kayle definitely becomes a huge issue for Riven's effectiveness.

She also holds up very well against most mid-laners, as she gets a damage spike at lvl 2, whereas most mid-laners get their major damage spike at 3. Her ultimate also does very well against champions with high burst and low CC, such as Zed.

Damage Output

Kayle's damage output is best compared with Nasus. She scales very hard into late game, and will do a surprisingly good chunk of damage if left alone to farm. She's not easy to catch or focus down, but can wreck a team's day by herself.

In lane her trading ability is very high (even if you grab a point in her heal at level 4), and she definitely has the chance to snowball from some early cheese kills mid lane.

Conclusions

I'm not quite ready to say that Kayle is broken and deserving of nerfs, but she's also not particular FOTM at the moment, with a popularity lower than even Volibear. If she does become a very mainstream pick on the other hand, I could see the general community getting very tired of her very fast. Luckily, her skillset isn't very flashy or fun to play, so I'm not terribly concerned in a play rate spike.

If you're looking to grind up some quick Elo and want a simple champion to practice and master though, I think Kayle is a great pick with high potential that will bring you far.

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I swear, this is so odd.I dominated as kayle, ziggs,syndra, and leblanc in the end of season three, and now their competitive in season 4. Same happened with gragas a month before worlds. Sleeper champions are the best.

Please don't tell people about Kayle as someone who mains Kayle i have an almost 70% win rate over almost 50 games. Attention = nerfs and bans. Shes not op, just can be very good in the right hands. With quick reactions ive made some crazy clutch plays keeping the adc alive or absorbing 5 ulti's.

The moment she does this combo, the most obvious move is to keep out of range, but that won't be enough, you need a good enough jungler to notice these critical times of overextending which is very easily done on kayle unless being careful. The moment kayle is out of position, any form of CC pre 6 will decimate her. Long story short, unless you counter kayle in lane, its up to your jungler to help your lane.

I think I figured out why's she's strong now. It's the new Offense mastery Tree. When you use her E to auto-attack you proc both Spell Weaving and Blade Weaving. When you have that, Arcane Blade, Hybrid Pen, Nashor's Tooth and LB you have both strong burst and Sustained damage. Also, you'd be surprised how many things she can check with a well timed ult.

Kayle is still strong but recent Lich Bane nerf calls for a little buff to either Q or E I feel because Kayle was not broken with dmg she was okay but Riot went full retard and nerfed both Kayle and Lich Bane yeah we got a little more UT but since she has only 2 damaging spells nerfs both to essential item and Champ himself were stupid.